“And he said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.’” – Mark 5:34
In the blink of an eye, a woman who’d been suffering for 12 years was instantly healed, simply because she touched Jesus. Her physical ailment was healed. In that healing, she was also healed spiritually. No longer was she “unclean” and therefore cut off from the religious life of Israel. Her faith had truly made her well.
This miraculous moment reveals the healing power of Jesus as well as His divine power to make clean those who are unclean. It points us toward Christ’s power of healing and restoration that’s freely offered to every man, woman, and child. All of us suffer from a terrible disease called sin. It has plagued us since birth. All of us are unclean by the fact that we rebel against God’s good design, plan, and will for our lives. All of us exclude ourselves from fellowship with holy God. However, faith in Christ makes us well, just as it made that woman well!
When we believe in Jesus, believing that He’s the Son of God who sacrificed Himself on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, dying, being buried, and rising from death on the third day, we too are made well. By God’s grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, we are saved. Our sins are forgiven. We’re able to go and live in peace with God for the first time in our lives. We’re truly made well spiritually and we’re healed of our worst sickness – our bondage to sin, evil, and death.
If you’re a believer in Jesus, then your faith has already made you well in the most important ways possible. If you aren’t, are you ready to believe, be healed, and live in peace with God?